by
: The standard UNIX backup is tar. Slow, hard to work with, almost 0 on
: the compression scale, and command line driven. If you like point and
: click then you won't like tar. The second is cpio, just as bad.
This point matches native SYS V Unix tar and cpio only.
You may get gnu cpio and gnu tar. (Standard in Linux & NetBSD)
Those Utilities compresses via gnuzip (-z flagged), if required.
Hey Karl, those utilities work for your SunOS too.
: If you are looking at a UNIX platform, don't go cheap. While FreeBSD,
: and Linux are fairly good systems, they have many problems.
Yes and No.
Depends on the Distribution you have choosen. Most common problems
result if you wanna upgrade across major Version numbers.
i.E.:
Linux V1.0, 1.1 to 1.2.13 was hard, because the binary
exe format changed (a.out to elf).
Linux V1.2.13 to V2.0 is hard because there are heavy
changes with the Systemlibraries and much new
features.
I'm running a old 1.2.13 system at my university with old
a.out binary format and I am pretty happy about stability and
uptimes. Pretty good server.
But you'll have no problems if you start working with a clean
new distribution - avoiding major upgrades.
There are some very good Linux Dirstributions avaible - doesn't cost
much. (RedHat, Caldera (with Commercial support), InfoMagic)
: If you are going to go this route, take FreeBSD.
Good choice, NetBSD (commercial) is a clean and closed OS.
(A modern Linux too, Caldera is Full supported)
mfG
Jojo
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